Equitable Strategies for Growing Urban Agriculture Webinar

Linked by Michael Levenston

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February 16, 2012
11 a.m. – 12 p.m. (PST); 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. (EST)

A vibrant movement is afoot in cities across the country ? farmers, activists, and community organizations are improving the health, economic outlook, and vitality of their communities through urban farming. Advocates are illustrating that urban agriculture is a pathway to making healthy food more available for low-income communities, a key to shifting economic revitalization efforts, and catalytic for battling the challenges of blight and abandonment.

Building from the recently released PolicyLink Urban Agriculture Tool, PolicyLink will be hosting a mini-series of webinars focusing on how low-income communities and communities of color are incorporating urban agriculture into their community development efforts and into policy infrastructures supporting this work.

This first webinar will feature Green City Grower’s CEO Mary Donnell, Ian Marvy, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Added Value (see video here), and Malik Yakini, Chairman of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network. Each panelist will discuss challenges and strategies for growing and sustaining urban agriculture projects in low-income communities and communities of color.

I am completing my Master’s degree this May with an emphasis on urban ag, food security, and green roof food production. Can’t wait for the webinar. I believe we must revitalize our local communities by teaching the citizens to be more self reliant by producing a portion of their own food needs.